Section: Verbal

24) Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Rather than portraying Joseph II as a radical reformer whose reign was strikingly enlightened, the play Amadeus depicts him as ------ thinker, too wedded to orthodox theories of musical composition to appreciate an artist of Mozart's genius.

a politic
an iconoclastic
a doctrinaire
an idiosyncratic
a revolutionary

Explanation

A man too wedded to orthodox theories or doctrines can best be described as doctrinaire or dogmatic.

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